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  • Equinor’s Johan Castberg project under investigation amid ‘major challenges’ with FPSO hull welds

    2 September 2020
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Certification & Classification, Equipment, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety, Vessels

    Norwegian offshore safety watchdog has launched an investigation into challenges related to the completion of the hull and equipment for Equinor’s Johan Castberg FPSO.

  • Mubadala kicks off three-well exploration campaign in Gulf of Thailand

    21 November 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Mubadala Petroleum has kicked off its three-well exploration campaign at the G1/48 Manora oil field located in the Northern Gulf of Thailand. 

  • Iran oil conference in London postponed

    29 September 2015

    A conference planned for December in London to unveil new Iranian oil contracts has been postponed to February 2016, National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) reported on Saturday. According to NIOC, its Managing Director Rokneddin Javadi said earlier in September that the new contracts would be unveiled first at a Tehran conference most probably in early November. […]

  • APM Terminals: CMIT Sets Productivity Benchmarks for Vietnam

    31 May 2012

    On 22nd May 2012 Cai Mep International Terminal (CMIT) set two important new productivity benchmarks for container terminals in Vietnam. While handling Maersk Line’s vessel, the 116,100 DWT, 9,038 TEU MV Mette Maersk, CMIT handled 2,100 containers during an 11 hour, 30 minute port stay. Gross crane productivity was 43 container moves per hour, resulting […]

  • Safety body spots improvement points on turret for Johan Castberg FPSO

    11 April 2019
    Infrastructure

    The PSA has found improvements points during an audit of Equinor’s Johan Castberg FPSO turret design and fabrication.

  • The Netherlands: Fugro Reports Growth in Revenue with Improving Market Conditions

    21 May 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    For Fugro the year 2012 started with improved performance compared to the same period in 2011. The oil price remained on average around USD 120 per barrel (Brent). The sustained high levels of exploration and production spending by the oil and gas industry result in continued improvement of Fugro’s related activities. Geoscience Fugro has built […]

  • Australia: Maroochydore Beach Renourishment Kicks Off

    19 June 2013

    Sand renourishment work at Maroochydore Beach is on track to be completed before the summer storm season, with sand pumping starting today. The extra sand will widen the beach, help prevent severe erosion and protect public facilities and infrastructure along Alexandra Parade and Aerodrome Road. The popular stretch between Maroochydore and Alexandra Headland is worth […]

  • UK: Drilling activity on Breagh field delayed

    18 January 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Swiss company Ineos Group is looking to reduce further investments in the Breagh gas field in the UK North Sea causing a delay in the restart of drilling activities on the field.  Ineos is the operator of the field with 70% interest. According to Sterling Resources, a Canadian-listed oil and gas company and a partner […]

  • Woodside cuts production forecast on Wheatstone delays

    19 October 2017

    Australia’s Woodside has narrowed its full year production guidance following a later than expected Wheatstone start-up. Wheatstone, the giant multi-billion dollar LNG project began production in the second week of October. The start-up of the giant Chevron-operated LNG development had been planned for year-end 2016, only to be put off for mid-2017 in February 2016. Then […]

  • Piper Alpha: 25th Anniversary of the World’s Worst Offshore Disaster (VIDEO)

    7 July 2013

    Saturday, July 6, 2013 marked the 25th anniversary of the largest disaster in the history of offshore oil and gas industry. On Wednesday, July 6, 1988 the Piper Alpha platform in the UK part of the North Sea was struck by an explosion which set the facility on fire, killing 167 men on board. The […]

  • USA: Bayou Lafourche Dredging Set for 2015

    2 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    A dredging project worth $20 million in the Bayou Lafourche could start in early 2015. As Bayou Lafourche Freshwater District executive director said, the project, second of this type in the last four years, could last between 16 and 18 months. As katc reports, the goal of the project is to increase water flow of […]

  • Proserv to upgrade subsea control equipment for Repsol’s Yme field

    16 April 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Proserv has secured a contract with Repsol to upgrade and build new subsea production control equipment for the Yme field redevelopment in the Norwegian North Sea.

  • New survey begins at Statkraft’s offshore wind site in Ireland

    7 September 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    A one-month geophysical survey campaign has commenced at the export cable route area of the North Irish Sea Array (NISA) offshore wind project in Ireland. The campaign started on 3 September at the site located off the coast of north County Dublin and County Meath, with completion expected on 3 October, weather permitting. Survey vessel […]

  • Team Van Oord Kicks Off Portsea Island Scheme

    28 May 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Team Van Oord has started work on phase one of a £44m, 10-year flood protection scheme for the north of Portsea Island which will reduce the risk of coastal flooding and erosion to the area over the next 100 years. The contract has been awarded to Team Van Oord by the Eastern Solent Coastal Partnership, and […]

  • Equinor’s North Sea field duo to operate 34 years longer than expected

    12 September 2019

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Equinor consent to use the facilities on the Tordis and Vigdis fields, located in the North Sea off Norway, beyond the approved lifetime.

  • PD&MS awarded raft of new contracts

    5 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    PD&MS Group has secured long-term contracts in excess of £400 million in the past 12 months. The new and renewed awards have resulted in over 100 additional personnel being employed to support projects in the North Sea and Azerbaijan.

  • ‘Ocean America’ rig set to spud Levitt well (Australia)

    1 July 2015
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Karoon Energy Australia has said that the Ocean America semi-submersible drilling rig is currently mobilizing to its drilling location in the Carnarvon basin, offshore W. Australia. Once there, it will spud the Levitt-1 exploration well. Drilling is expected to start during the first week of July. According to Karoon, the Levitt-1 exploration well is a […]

  • Norway: Statoil Ready for Gudrun Development

    17 June 2010

    The plan for development and operation (PDO) of the North Sea Gudrun field was approved by the Norwegian Parliament on 16 June. Production is scheduled to start in the first quarter of 2014. ”This is an important day for us,” says Øystein Michelsen, executive vice president for Exploration & Production Norway (EPN). “The Gudrun field […]

  • Port of Amsterdam Launches Cybersecurity Programme

    30 January 2019

    The Port of Amsterdam launches a Cybersecurity Programme to increase the port community’s digital resilience.

  • Eldepasco NV Confirms Vestas as Preferred Partner to Provide Turbines for New Belgian Offshore Wind Farm

    7 April 2011

    After a recent restructuring, Eldepasco NV, a joint venture between the Belgian Colruyt Group and Aspivari, announced that its plans for the establishment of Belgium’s next wind farm on the Bank zonder Naam (bank with no name) in the North Sea will go ahead as planned. In preparation of reaching financial closure, the shareholders approved […]

  • NASA Sets Media Opportunities for NEEMO Undersea Mission (USA)

    20 October 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Journalists will have the opportunity to cover the 15th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, or NEEMO, from up close or afar. The mission was originally scheduled to start Oct. 17, but tropical storm conditions in the area of the undersea laboratory required a delay. Journalists are invited to visit the Mobile Mission Control Center, which […]

  • Norway Gives Green Light for Ormen Lange Plant Expansion

    10 February 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted consent for start-up of the expansion of the gas plant at Nyhamna in Møre og Romsdal County. This should allow the Ormen Lange field in the Norwegian Sea to increase production by 25-30 billion standard cubic meters (Sm3) of gas. The upgrade – also called Nyhamna expansion – consists […]

  • A2SEA Orders Made-in-UK Sea Fastenings

    9 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    Denmark’s A2SEA has contracted two UK shipyards to fabricate and install sea fastenings on two of the company’s turbine installation vessels which are set to start working offshore UK.  A&P Tyne will fabricate and install the sea fastening on Sea Challenger, which was contracted to work on the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm, with Cammel […]

  • Tullow spuds first of two exploration wells offshore Guyana

    5 July 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Tullow Oil has started drilling operations offshore Guyana with the spudding of the first exploration well on its Jethro-Lobe prospect on the Orinduik Block.

  • Scana in subsea equipment supply deals

    5 August 2020
    Equipment

    Norskeide Subseatec, a subsidiary of Scana, has received new contracts to supply subsea equipment for field developments in Africa and Southeast Asia. Total contract has a value of approximately SEK 13 million, with an option worth additional SEK 6 million. The company will provide subsea equipment, engineering, procurement and documentation for the developments. Delivery will […]